#Aftenposten

[andiatas]

According to Aftenposten, the victim has been granted a restraining order against Marius. The article is behind a paywall, but here are excerpts from an article from Aftonbladet:

Pictures published by Se og Hør show that the woman met Marius a few days later. They rode together in a car that left the crown prince couple's home in Skaugum, where Marius has his own residence.

But Marius' threats are said to have continued after the incident. According to Se og Hør, Marius harassed the ex-girlfriend with text messages and carried out a kind of telephone terror against the woman. He allegedly called her several times at all times of the day.

Now the woman has obtained a restraining order against Marius Borg Høiby for "reckless behaviour", reports the Norwegian Aftenposten.

- Yes, that's right. Until March 2025. This was considered necessary, but I have no other comments, says the woman's representative Larsen to the newspaper.

This means that Høiby is not allowed to contact the woman - neither physically nor digitally.

Note from Saga: Normally, I wouldn't have shared an article like this, an article that cites another article that partly cites a third article. But I thought this would be of interest, the Aftenposten article is behind a paywall & I would like to interact with the tabloid Se og Hør as little as possible... so yeah, hence this article game of telephone.

[miniaturedelusionreview]

When Pa comes on a visit, there are always lots of newspapers on the table. :-) I seldom read newspapers. I read the local paper on the Internet, but this weekend, I will glance through some papers.

I have started watching the news on TV then just to have some clue what's going on in the world...

Nice to have a visitor. I get to tidy and clean my apartment a bit before he comes, and that was just OK for me too. It was way overdue. Sigh! The story of my life. Why can't I be more of a housewife with some super cleaning skills? Someone who took pride in a clean and tidy apartment?

I like planning dinner for two then. Nothing fancy or complicated. And just to point that out, my Pa is not expecting me to do anything special just because he comes visiting. My house could look like hell, and the food could just be a ham sandwich. He would not wrinkle his nose at all. But I like to fuss a little, so it's all up to me what I make out of it. No pressure!

[primepaginequotidiani]

#Aftenposten https://www.primepaginequotidiani.com/quotidiano.php?id=91

[ebordewich]

NRK og MSM sprer falske nyheter og misinformasjon om temperaturer

Det er Ole Østlid i Værstat som har sjekket saken om en varmerekord i India som har blitt slått opp over hele det Norske medieteppet som en klimahysterisk sensasjon. I tråd med narrativet har de ikke undersøkt fakta i saken og i populistisk ånd har de grepet ethvert halmstrå de finner om at vi mennesker ødelegger klima. Både NRK, Aftenposten, Dagbladet, Dagsavisen, TV2, VG, Abc…

[godtsagt]

I 2021 ble planene om bussterminal parkert.

(Aftenposten, 21. februar 2023)

[bodoposten]

– Vi driver ikke med kansellering

Christian Krohgs maleri Leiv Eiriksson oppdager Amerika er ikke kansellert av Nasjonalmuseet. Nå vises maleriet i museet de neste fire ukene.  Et sitat fra Nasjonalmuseets samlingsdirektør i lørdagens Aftenposten, der hun omtaler Christian Krohgs maleri Leiv Eiriksson oppdager Amerika som «kolonialistisk», har satt i gang en diskusjon om kansellering.  Samlingsdirektør Högkvist har beklaget…

[random-brushstrokes]

Oda Krohg - A subscriber to Aftenposten (1887)

[nando161mando]

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More than 24285 Palestinians have been killed and more than 61000 have been injured in Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip since October 7. That is shown by news numbers from Gaza's health ministry, reports Aftenposten [major evening newspaper of Norway].

Of the dead 75 percent are children, women and elderly. At least 10600 children, 7200 women and 1049 elderly have been killed so far, according to the numbers.

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TT News Agency,

shared news agency for

all major newspapers in Sweden.

[adito-lang]

Podcasts for intermediate/advanced Norwegian listening practice

Finding Norwegian podcasts has always been a bit daunting for me, because I don't listen to a lot of podcasts in general, but over the past weeks I've discovered some that I really enjoy!

1. Lær norsk nå!

This podcast (norsknivå B1 – B2) cover all sorts of interesting social, cultural and political topics - coffee, the Cold War, right-wing populism in Norway, feminism, Sámi history, etc - as well as aspects of the Norwegian language 🔡 You can listen to all the episodes and find transcripts for them (starting with episode 5) here. The host, Marius, is originally from Nærbø (in Rogaland, near Stavanger), and speaks in both his dialect and also standard østnorsk depending on the episode.

2. Relax With Slow Norwegian

I'm a tinglehead (someone who loves listening to ASMR ✨), so I was super excited to find this podcast and Lene's YouTube channel! She speaks bergensk and has lots of great episodes and videos dedicated to learning Norwegian centered around a specific topic.

3. Norskpodden

An awesome podcast (norsknivå B1 – B2) with episodes ranging from grammar to salary negotiation to the the history of queer rights in Norway. Episodes and transcripts can be found here. I find the transcripts helpful, because the host Camila speaks at a quite natural pace (so it gives me a huge confidence boost whenever I can understand most of an episode without the transcripts 😎).

4. Nylig Norsk

This is a fun little podcast created by students at the University of Bergen. They speak a lot slower than the other podcasts here, which sounds a bit unnatural, but that makes it quite easy to understand (norsknivå A2-B1). The topics are engaging and there's transcripts here for each episode. I like the "city-trip"/regional episodes, and it felt really cool having been to some of the places they talked about! ✈️

5. Språktalk

This podcast isn't aimed at people learning Norwegian, which is good practice for listening to natural-sounding dialogue. The episodes are all about languages and linguistic topics, so if that's your cup of tea I highly suggest giving it a listen. They had a German guest for one episode who spoke Norwegian sooooo well, it gave me hope for myself 😂

6. Forklart

Forklart, another podcast that isn't aimed at people learning Norwegian, takes a topic from the news (sometimes domestic news, but more often international news) and breaks it down into a compact 15-minute episode 🗞 There is one episode every day, so if you're interested in keeping up with current political events in Norwegian, this is a great podcast to listen to! Although keep in mind that the podcast is run by Aftenposten (as is Språktalk), which has historically been a centre-right newspaper.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Bulletin/Novus: Nine out of ten foreign-born people have holidayed in their country of birth

By: Alex Alma

[ Note: Auto-translated from Swedish ]

A new survey from Novus shows that over 85 percent of foreign-born people have at some point traveled back to their country of birth for a holiday. Among those who came to Sweden as refugees, the proportion who have holidayed in their old home country is 79 percent.

Holidaying in the country you fled from has become a topic of discussion in European countries in recent years. Bulletin has commissioned Novus to investigate how foreign-born people view repatriation, their children's growing conditions and holidaying in their country of birth. The sample consists of 1050 foreign-born people and the survey was conducted between 18 and 24 August.

The survey shows that only two percent of foreign-born people plan to return to their country of birth in the future, while 16 percent answer maybe. 76 percent believe that they intend to stay, among those who have come to Sweden from a non-European country, the proportion is 81 percent. 53 percent of foreign-born people believe that Sweden is a better country for their children to grow up in compared to their home country, while 9 percent believe that Sweden is worse than their home country. 33 percent answer neither.

Holidays in the country of birth

In the Bulletin/Novus survey, 85 percent of foreign-born people have visited their home country as a holiday destination at some point. Among those who came as family immigrants, 92 percent have traveled back to their country of birth to holiday at least once, while the figure is 79 percent among those who came as refugees. The group of foreign-born people with the highest proportion have never holidayed in their country of birth are the adopted, where 41 per cent have not visited the country of birth since they came to Sweden.

Novus points out that it is in the nature of things that those who participate in their surveys are reasonably well integrated in Sweden, since they answer questions in Swedish. The political conditions in their countries of origin may therefore have changed as time has passed.

But 79 percent is still a very high figure considering that we are talking about those who have come to Sweden and claimed that they are refugees.

In Norway, Aftenposten reported in 2018 that 24 percent of immigrants from Somalia, 40 percent of immigrants from Afghanistan, 55 percent of immigrants from Iran and 71 percent of immigrants from Iraq regularly traveled to their home country. According to Aftenposten, the data had been produced by Norway's statistical authority SSB. A difference with Bulletins/Novus is that the Norwegian figures are the proportion of immigrants who regularly holiday in their home country, while the Swedish figures report those who have travelled at least once.

Most countries allow people who have become citizens to return to their home country on vacation. At the same time, the fact that so many who originally came as refugees are returning indicates that the need for protection no longer applies, or perhaps never was so great.

The regulations for asylum seekers who have not been granted citizenship differ depending on the country. In Sweden, there are no restrictions for refugees who have been granted a permanent residence permit to travel back to their home country. However, refugee status can be revoked if it turns out that the person no longer needs international protection from their home country, and in cases where asylum seekers have been found to provide incorrect information about their need for protection. Other countries have stricter regulations. Switzerland, for example, does not allow asylum seekers to travel back to their home country to see relatives or vacation, except in very special circumstances. If this happens, the foreign-born person loses the right to continue to have a residence permit in Switzerland, according to UNHCR.

In Germany, too, asylum seekers' holiday trips to their home country became a political issue, as holiday trips were considered incompatible with the claim that one is fleeing for one's life and seeking protection in Germany due to danger in the home country. In a statement in 2019, Germany's then Interior Minister Horst Seehofer warned refugees that they would be investigated and stripped of their residence permits when traveling to their home country.

"If someone, a Syrian refugee, regularly vacations in Syria, he cannot honestly claim to be persecuted in Syria," he said, adding "we would have to strip him of his refugee status."

According to DW, for example, in 2016, investigations led to 66 refugees from Iraq and Syria being stripped of their residence permits, and were no longer considered to be in need of protection because they had gone on trips to their home country.

Angela Merkel has also criticized refugees' holiday trips to their home country, and said that it could be interpreted as meaning that the need for protection should be reassessed.

CORRECTION: The article previously stated that Sweden does not have restrictions for those who have been granted asylum to return to their country of origin. The Swedish Migration Agency has pointed out: "That statement is directly incorrect, refugee status can be revoked if it turns out that the person no longer needs international protection from their home country or if they have provided incorrect information about such a need." The text has been corrected.

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Legal immigration and legitimate asylum/refugee protection are all good things.

But western societies are being taken for a ride by people who are exploiting their empathy. When you claim to be fleeing a toxic ideology but then have no problem wandering back, we're justified in assuming you're not on the side that you claimed to be or that benefits us.

Revoke status and deport.

[ruttotohtori]

Valvontakameroiden olemassaolosta tietämätön ranskalaismies päätyi kolmeksi viikoksi vankilaan hurjasteltuaan itselleen 25 ylinopeussakkoa vain 19 päivän aikana Norjassa helmikuussa, kertoi maan media maanantaina.

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Pahimmillaan raskasjalkainen ranskalainen hurjasteli nopeuskameran kuvaan helmikuussa 113 kilometrin nopeudella, kun nopeusrajoitus olisi sallinut vain 70 kilometrin vauhdin. Aftenposten-lehden mukaan valtaosa miehen ylinopeuksista tallentui juuri liikennekameroihin.

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[andiatas]

Lawyer wants Mette-Marit to be called in for questioning

The ex-girlfriend accuses Marius Borg Høiby of assault - but the Crown Princess's son denies it. Now Juliane Snekkestad's lawyer wants the police to question Crown Princess Mette-Marit.

- The evidence situation in the case is such that we think it is only natural that we get her explanation now, says lawyer Petter J. Grødem to Aftenposten [article behind paywall].

Marius Borg Høiby has admitted that he abused his last girlfriend and destroyed her apartment on August 4. He has also admitted that he threatened to kill a man.

But he denies that he abused his two former girlfriends, Juliane Snekkestad and Nora Haukland. They both took to social media and accused Marius of physical and mental abuse during the periods they were with Mette-Marit's son.

Juliane and Marius were a couple between 2017 and 2022, they also owned a house together which they sold when the relationship ended.

Marius has made counter-accusations in police interrogation and says that it is Snekkestad who allegedly abused him.

Snekkestad's lawyer has now asked the police to take the Crown Princess in for questioning.

- I have sent a formal request to summon Crown Princess Mette-Marit for questioning to the Oslo police district, Grødem tells Aftenposten.

- An explanation from the Crown Princess will, in my opinion, shed new light on the case against her son.

Oslo police press chief Unni Grøndal confirms to Aftenposten that they have received a request for questioning, but does not want to comment on the matter further.

Crown Princess Mette-Marit is on sick leave until October 30 due to side effects of a medication she is taking for her pulmonary fibrosis.

Translation and editing for clarity by me of an article by Jenny Alexandersson, Royal Editor, for Aftonbladet published on Oct. 28, 2024, at 21:00.

Note: The original article by Aftenposten is behind a paywall. This is a short summary from Aftonbladet about what that article says.

[tarjeismoeworknews]

Clip from the short film Barbra Streisand-effekten now available on aftenposten.no. To be able to watch it you need to be in Norway( or use VPN) and have a subscription( you can try Aftenposten for 30 days for NOK 1).

The movie follows siblings Sine and Åge who get into a heated argument on the way to their grandfather's funeral. Sine is adopted from Eritrea and has just found out that her grandfather was a Nazi. (Director: Úlfur Kjalar Eyjólfsson)

Translation:

Sine: You’ve always been weak. And people don’t collect Nazi stuff for fun!!!

Åge: Calling me weak? You’re calling me weak, huh?

Åge: Sorry that’s a bit nasty.

Sine: Really nasty

[primepaginequotidiani]

#Aftenposten https://www.primepaginequotidiani.com/quotidiano.php?id=91

[wejustvibing]

700 beds for 60,000

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has reported that many of their shelters are between 2.51 times to 11 times over capacity, and the New York Times has reported that the Al-Shifa hospital, with a normal capacity of 700 beds, “is now housing more than 60,000 people.”

This was the state of the crisis before the blackout.

The heaviest impact hits the most vulnerable

"The people that live in these very highly crowded emergency shelters have no water to drink and to maintain their basic hygiene to their families, to their kids, to their elderly people and to their disabled people as well,” CARE Emergency Humanitarian Coordinator in Gaza, Saaed Madhoun, said.

“Due to the large number of people in these locations, we will be seeing a catastrophic result from water borne diseases and dehydration. Contagious diseases are now breaking out in a very scary way in the overcrowded shelters,” Hiba Tibu told DW.

Conflict is not gender neutral

CARE research has shown over and over that these vulnerabilities disproportionately affect women and girls. Gaza is no different. “The situation for children is for me, as a woman and a human, the worst. It breaks my heart,” Hiba told the Norwegian daily Aftenposten.

Emergency C-sections & vinegar for disinfectant

Pregnant women are being forced to undergo emergency C-sections without anesthetics, and that women are being discharged within as little as three hours after giving birth.

An average of 160 pregnant women are expected to give birth every day over the next month in Gaza. CARE’s latest Rapid Gender Analysis warns that the dire conditions are exacerbating the risk of maternal and newborn mortality, which are already disproportionately high in Gaza.

CEASEFIRE NOW.

[nicklloydnow]

“Ukraine's former military Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said that the direct involvement of Russia's autocratic allies in its war on Ukraine means that World War III has started.

"I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun," said Zaluzhny, who is now Ukraine's envoy to the United Kingdom, during a speech at Ukrainska Pravda's UP100 award ceremony.

"Because in 2024, Ukraine is no longer facing Russia. Soldiers from North Korea are standing in front of Ukraine. Let's be honest. Already in Ukraine, the Iranian 'Shahedis' are killing civilians absolutely openly, without any shame," said Zaluzhny, adding that North Korean and Chinese weapons are flying into Ukraine.

"It is still possible to stop it here, on the territory of Ukraine. But for some reason our partners do not want to understand this. It is obvious that Ukraine already has too many enemies. Ukraine will survive with technology, but it is not clear whether it can win this battle alone," he said.

(…)

Zelenskyy fired Zaluzhny in February after rising tensions between the two on how the war in Ukraine should be fought — as well as Zaluzhny's growing popularity, which made him a potential political threat.”

“Germany is drawing up a list of bunkers that could provide emergency shelter for civilians, the interior ministry has said, at a time of rising tensions with Russia.

The list would include underground train stations and car parks as well as state buildings and private properties, a ministry spokesperson said.

A digital directory of bunkers and emergency shelters will be drawn up so people can find them quickly using a planned phone app. People would also be encouraged to create protective shelters in their homes by converting basements and garages, the spokesperson told a press briefing.

(…)

The country of 84 million people has 579 bunkers, mostly from the second world war and the cold war era, which can provide shelter for 480,000 people, down from about 2,000 bunkers previously.”

“Sweden on Monday started to distribute copies of a booklet advising its citizens how to prepare for war, as Nordic countries teach people how to brace for a potential Russian attack.

The 32-page brochure, which is also available in English and several other languages, advises citizens on warning systems, how to seek shelter during an air raid and even psychological and digital security.

(…)

The booklet provides some information on how people can get involved in collective preparedness, such as joining a volunteer defense organization, taking a course in emergency CPR, donating blood, or talking with neighbors about how to become more prepared.

“To resist these threats, we must stand united. If Sweden is attacked, everyone must do their part to defend Sweden’s independence — and our democracy. We build resilience every day,” the pamphlet adds. “You are part of Sweden’s overall emergency preparedness.”

As Norwegian paper Aftenposten recently reported, Norway's citizens have also received similar “emergency preparedness��� pamphlets because “in the worst case” acts of war could also affect Norway.

Finland's government, too, has released a digital booklet to prepare citizens for “incidents and crises,” stating that the country “has always been prepared for the worst possible threat, war.”

(…)

Sweden will increase military spending to 2.4 percent of GDP next year.”

“Britain has three years to prepare for war against an "axis of upheaval" as Russia, China, North Korea and Iran increasingly work together, says the new head of the army.

In his first public speech, General Sir Roly Walker, chief of the general staff, said he believed the army had "just enough time" to "re-establish" a credible land force that could deter enemy nations from heading into battle with the West.

He said it did not matter how the war in Ukraine ended because either way Russia would emerge "very very dangerous" and "wanting some form of retribution for what we have done to help".

(…)

However, he said that the army, which has about 72,500 troops, the fewest since the Napoleonic era, may have to fight using old equipment because new vehicles and artillery systems coming into service may not be ready in time.

"We have just enough time... to prepare, act, and assure the re-establishment of credible land forces to support a strategy of deterrence," he told the land warfare conference at the Royal United Services Institute. He said that the "need is urgent" and although the UK was not on an "inexorable path to war" credible hard power must be restored in order to provide deterrence.

He said that if the UK was to "deter an increasingly aligned axis of upheaval" then it needed to "apply all strengths as a free-market democracy against the weaknesses of their rigid, autocratic, command economies".

Walker believes he has until 2027 or 2028 to bolster the army's fighting power. He said he wanted to double the army's ability to fight and kill within three years and triple it by the end of the decade. His thinking is in line with the US, which has warned of Beijing's readiness to invade Taiwan by 2027, an event that would probably drag the US and Britain into a Third World War. Walker also has concerns over Iran's nuclear weapons programme.

He believes that by 2027 Russia may have been able to sufficiently re-arm with the help of countries such as China, Iran and North Korea. Moscow will also be feeling "angry and resentful" by then, whichever way the war in Ukraine turns out, the army fears. Walker said a conflict in one area could "detonate" another.

(…)

"When you think they are down they Russial will come roaring back to get their vengeance," he said in a briefing on the fringes of the conference. He said Russia's intent went further than Ukraine and was to break up the Euroatlantic security architecture.

A combination of all those countries together, working to a degree in an alliance but at the very least supporting each other industrially, is what makes him fear there is not as much time to prepare for war as other allied nations may think.

A major review of UK defence is under way and due to conclude in the first half of next year, although it remains unclear when the government will begin the process of increasing defence spending from 2.3 per cent of GDP to 2.5 per cent, as Labour promised in its manifesto.

There are concerns within the MoD and within industry that the defence review could lead to critical projects being axed because of a multibillion pound black hole in the equipment plans.

(…)

Walker said "it will take more time than I think we have for new fighting systems to be fielded at scale in our fighting formations" and if the army is called to battle before then it will have to use old equipment, as well as limited stockpiles as logistic support systems.

Yet he outlined plans to transform his service with the aim that it will be able to destroy a force at least three times its size and "keep on doing that" so it will be able to "fight anyone and win".

He said the idea that troop numbers alone determined fighting power was out of date and that the fact that the army was "medium-sized" should be embraced.

He wants a UK brigade combat team of around 7,000 to be able to destroy a force such as Russia's 18th combined-arms army of approximately 20,000 which has been deployed to Ukraine.”